?Join Dineamic as our Quality Assurance Manager! ?

Are you passionate about food safety, quality, and hands-on leadership? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment ensuring the highest standards are met across all production processes? If you're an experienced QA professional ready to make an impact in a growing food business, we want YOU on our team!

? Location: Keysborough, VIC

About Us:

At Dineamic, we're on a mission to make Australia healthier and happier one meal at a time. We take pride in sourcing quality ingredients from Aussie farmers and ensuring our food meets the highest safety standards. As we continue to expand, we're seeking a proactive and hands-on Quality Assurance Manager to lead & evolve our quality and compliance efforts, continuous improvement and excellence across the board.

Position Purpose The QA Manager will lead Dineamic's food safety function through a period of significant growth, driving a robust safety culture, building process and structure, and continuously improving standards across the business. This is a hands-on leadership role: training and developing the team, embedding food safety as a business-wide priority, and providing regular visibility to the Senior Leadership Team on food safety performance.

This role leads food safety risk and compliance, partnering with Culinary to define and maintain quality standards across the business, ensuring Dineamic's customers receive safe, high-quality food

Key Responsibilities

Food Safety Leadership & Culture

- Drive a strong, visible food safety culture across the business — this is a lead-from-the-front role, not a back-office function
- Develop and formalise processes, procedures and SOPs as the business expands into new markets and operating environments
- Train,



coach and upskill staff across all levels on food safety practice and expectations
- Present a monthly Food Safety performance report to the Senior Leadership Team

Food Safety Management System

- Lead and continuously improve the HACCP plan, food safety program, and supporting documentation
- Accountable for leading and continuously improving the HACCP plan, food safety program and supporting documentation to ensure regulatory compliance and operational excellence
- Coordinated site planning, workflow improvements, and site upgrade projects in partnership with Operations
- Challenge and upgrade existing quality systems and processes - expected to identify improvement and rebuild it, not just administer what's in place
- Lead root cause investigation and corrective/preventive action for food safety incidents or non-conformances

Regulatory & Certification Compliance

- Accountable for compliance with FSANZ and relevant food safety regulations across AU & Local council
- Own third-party certification and customer audit readiness
- Act as primary contact for regulatory bodies and auditors

Team Leadership

- Lead and develop the Quality Assurance team, including performance management and capability building, while providing oversight and mentorship to the Quality Systems & Compliance Manager to ensure effective documentation, compliance and audit readiness across the business
- Build food safety and quality awareness across operations, culinary, and commercial teams





Product & Technical Support

- Provide food safety sign-off on new product formulations and processes developed by the Culinary and NPD teams. Oversee food safety testing programs, including microbiological and shelf-life validation, ensuring products meet safety and compliance requirements while supporting efficient product launches
- Oversee & Provide expertise in food safety testing programs (microbiological, shelf-life, allergen) — product quality testing remains with Culinary ensuring speed to market product launches.

Continuous Improvement & Reporting

- Report quality/food safety KPIs and audit outcomes to senior leadership
- Identify and lead systems/process improvements to reduce risk and improve efficiency as production volume grows
- Upskill Production team knowledge and food safety awareness through training and interaction

Key Requirements

- Degree in Food Science, Food Technology, or related field
- 5 years in a food manufacturing QA Management role, ideally in RTH/cook-chill or similar high-risk category
- Strong working knowledge of FSANZ Standard 3.2.2/3.3.1, HACCP, and third-party certification schemes
- Demonstrated experience leading change, building process from scratch, and driving culture — not just maintaining existing systems
- Demonstrated team leadership experience
- Experience managing external audits (customer, regulatory, certification body)

Other Duties

Undertake any other duties instructed by the business from time to time to support broader business goals and objectives.

If you're a dynamic leader with a passion for quality and excellence, we want to hear from you!

Apply now to join the Dineamic team and help us deliver nutritious, delicious meals across Australia!

📌 Quality Assurance Manager (Keysborough)
🏢 Dineamic Australia
📍 Keysborough